The Continuity of Mycenaean
Tradition into later Greek History
Post-Bronze Age Chronology of Greece
1070 BCE
End of the Bronze Age
(end of LH IIIC)
900 BCE
Proto-Geometric Period
700 BCE
Geometric Period
480 BCE
Archaic Period
323 BCE
Classical Period
146 BCE
Hellenistic Period
The “Heroon” at Lefkandi, Euboea
(c. 1000 BCE)
Finds from burials at Lefkandi
The Sanctuary of Hera
at Perachora
(8th cen. BCE)
The Sanctuary of
Zeus at Dodona
The Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis
Geometric bronze horse
(9th century BCE)
Bronze cauldrons and tripods
Protogeometric amphorae
Geometric amphorae showing funerary rituals
The “Diplyon Vase” (right) and Dipylon Krater
from near the Diplyon Gate in Athens
Proto-Attic funerary amporae
(mid 7th cen. BCE) found at
Eleusis showing the blinding
of Polyphemus